EXAME NACIONAL DO ENSINO SECUNDÁRIO

Decreto-Lei n.º 74/2004, de 26 de março

Prova Escrita de Inglês

10.º e 11.º Anos de Escolaridade – Continuação – bienal

Prova 550/1.ª Fase 8 Páginas

Duração da Prova: 120 minutos. Tolerância: 30 minutos.

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Utilize apenas caneta ou esferográfica de tinta indelével, azul ou preta.

Pode utilizar dicionários unilingues ou bilingues, sem restrições nem especificações.

Não é permitido o uso de corretor. Em caso de engano, deve riscar de forma inequívoca aquilo que pretende
que não seja classificado.

Escreva de forma legível a identificação das atividades e dos itens, bem como as respetivas respostas. As
respostas ilegíveis ou que não possam ser claramente identificadas são classificadas com zero pontos.

Para cada item, apresente apenas uma resposta. Se escrever mais do que uma resposta a um mesmo item,
apenas é classificada a resposta apresentada em primeiro lugar.

Responda aos itens pela ordem em que se apresentam, dado que cada um deles se integra numa sequência
que contribui para a realização da atividade final. Contudo, não há penalização, caso apresente as respostas
noutra sequência.

Nas respostas aos itens, não forneça elementos da sua identificação pessoal, como, por exemplo, o seu
nome.

As cotações dos itens encontram-se no final do enunciado da prova.

Sugestões de distribuição do tempo de realização da prova:

Atividade A 20 minutos

Atividade B 50 minutos

Atividade C 40 minutos

Revisão geral 10 minutos

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Your final task is to write an opinion text discussing the reasons why young people text so much.
Activities A and B will provide you with input for Activity C.

ACTIVITY A

1.  Read the following introductions to five paragraphs of an opinion text about technology and organise them
in a logical, coherent way.

Write only the sequence of letters.

 (A) Secondly, it is difficult to imagine in advance how new technology can be used. The fact is that it is
difficult to avoid its being misused ...

 (B) We are definitely suffering from the effects of technology. In this essay, I will say why we need technology
in spite of some of its risks ...

 (C) Technology by itself cannot solve our problems. First of all, it is neutral, neither good nor bad ...

 (D) To wrap it up, I would say we should look at ways of using technology to tackle our world’s issues,
rather than using it for mindless consumerism ...

 (E) However, we cannot just shun technology because of this and go back to living simple lives ...

2.  Match the words/expressions in bold in column A with their corresponding meaning in column B. Two of
the meanings do not apply.

Write only the letters and the numbers.

COLUMN A COLUMN B

(a) Adults blame teenagers for the high mobile

phone bills they often have to pay. (1) see the light

(b) Psychologists help clarify the consequences (2) miss the point of
of the excessive use of SMS.
(3) put their finger on
(c) Teenagers sometimes fail to grasp the
(4) make a point of
arguments used by parents.
(5) point the finger at
(d) Parents insist on the importance of
controlling their children’s use of mobile (6) shed some light on
phones.

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3.  Complete the text about teenagers’ reasons for sending text messages, using words/expressions from the
list (1-10). Do not use the same word/expression more than once. Four of them do not apply.

Write only the letters and the numbers.

a)____  of
According to the Pew Internet Project survey (2010),  ______
the teenagers interviewed (83%) mention catching up with friends as the
1) all
main reason why they send and receive text messages several times a day
2)  a minority
b)____  do it (once
or at least once a day. However, 13% say that they  ______
3)  a quarter
a month).
4)  half
Most teens say they use text messaging to say where they are or to know
5)  the majority
c)____  (28%) say they check
someone else’s whereabouts. Over  ______
6)  always
in with their parents or friends several times a day and 24% do so a little
7)  daily
d)____,  i.e., once a day.
less  ______
8)  frequently
e)____  of teens (11%) use text messaging to do things related
Only  ______
9)  occasionally
to their school work several times a day.
10)  rarely
f)____  use text messaging to talk about
About 24% of texting teens  ______
important personal matters (a couple of times a week).

Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project Surveys, 27.09.2010 (adapted)

4.  Connect items in columns A and C using the appropriate linking word/expression from column B.

Do not use the same linking word / expression more than once. Three of them do not apply.

Write the sequences of numbers only.

COLUMN A COLUMN B COLUMN C

(1) Nowadays teenagers text a lot; (6) although

(14) prevent health problems.
(2) Adults criticise teens’ overuse (7) if
(15) it’s easy to convince teenagers
of technology (8) however, to subscribe to them.
(3) Teenage addiction to texting (9) as long as (16) their parents are often unaware
can be a health risk
(10) therefore of this.
(4) Experts are studying the
(11) in order to (17) something is done to control
consequences of texting
the habit.
(5) Mobile phone companies offer (12) furthermore,
(18) they do it themselves.
unlimited plans; (13) unless

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ACTIVITY B

Read the text.

Texting Teenagers

1 They text late at night when their parents are asleep. They text in restaurants and while
crossing busy streets. They text in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They text
so much their thumbs hurt.
The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading
5 to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
Sherry Turkle, a psychologist who has studied texting among teenagers in the Boston area for
three years, said it might be causing a shift in the way adolescents develop. “Two of the jobs of
adolescence are to separate from your parents, and to find the peace and quiet to become the
person you decide you want to be,” she said. “Texting hits directly at both those jobs.”
10 Psychologists expect to see teenagers break free from their parents as they grow into
autonomous adults, but if technology makes something like staying in touch very, very easy,
that’s harder to do. As for peace and quiet, Turkle said, “If something next to you is vibrating
every couple of minutes, it makes it very difficult to be in that state of mind. The pressure
to answer immediately is quite high. So if you’re in the middle of a thought, forget it.” The
15 pediatrician Martin Joffe says parents tend to be far less aware of texting than of, say, video
game playing or general computer use, and the unlimited plans often mean that parents stop
paying attention to the details of the phone bill.
Still, some parents are starting to take measures. Greg Hardesty, a reporter in California,
said that last year his 13-year-old daughter, Reina, racked up 14 528 texts in one month. When
20 her grades fell precipitously, her parents confiscated the phone. Reina’s grades have since
improved, and the phone is back in her hands, but her text messages are limited to 5000 per
month — and none between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. on weekdays. “But when this happens, teens
feel they are being punished for behavior in which their parents indulge. Teenagers still need
their parents’ undivided attention,” Professor Turkle explained. “Even though they text 3500
25 messages a week, when they walk out of their ballet lesson, they’re upset to see their dad in
the car on the cell phone. The fantasy of every adolescent is that the parent is there, waiting,
expectant, completely there for them.”
www.nytimes.com (abridged and adapted)
(accessed 09.09.2010)

1.  Identify seven consequences of texting mentioned in the text.

2.  Briefly explain the writer’s purpose in repeating “they text” in the first paragraph.

3.  Complete the following sentences using the information given in paragraph 3.

Write only the letters and the corresponding answers.

a)  Teenagers won’t be able to become autonomous __________________________________________.

b)  The constant interference from the SMS teenagers send and receive disturbs ____________________.

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4.  Briefly explain what every adolescent’s fantasy is according to the text. Use your own words.

5.  Identify the idea each of the following words/expressions refers to. Use your own words.

Write only the letters and the corresponding answers.

a)  “The phenomenon” (l. 4)

b)  “this” (l. 22)

6.  Replace each of the words/expressions in bold with an equivalent that corresponds exactly to its meaning
in the given context. Use the same tense when applicable.

Write only the letters and the corresponding answers.

a)  “Texting hits directly at both those jobs” (l. 9)

b)  “than of, say, video game playing” (ll. 15-16)

c)  “racked up 14 528 texts in one month” (l. 19)

ACTIVITY C

A multinational mobile phone company has created an online forum for the exchange of views about texting
among young people.

Write an opinion text to the forum discussing the reasons why young people text so much.

Write between 150 and 220 words.

You may use the input provided by Activities A and B.

Do not sign your text.

FIM

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 COTAÇÕES

Atividade A
1. ..................................................................................... 5 pontos

2. ..................................................................................... 10 pontos

3. ..................................................................................... 10 pontos

4. ..................................................................................... 15 pontos

40 pontos

Atividade B
1. ..................................................................................... 10 pontos

2. ..................................................................................... 10 pontos

3. ..................................................................................... 15 pontos

4. ..................................................................................... 15 pontos

5. ..................................................................................... 15 pontos

6. ..................................................................................... 15 pontos

80 pontos

Atividade C
..................................................................................... 80 pontos

80 pontos

TOTAL..........................................  200 pontos

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